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Miral
French film poster
Directed by	Julian Schnabel
Written by	Rula Jebreal
Produced by	Jon Kilik François-Xavier Decraene Sonia Raule Jérôme Seydoux
Starring	Hiam Abbass Freida Pinto
Cinematography	Éric Gautier
Edited by	Juliette Welfling
Music by	Olivier Daviaud
Production companies	Pathé ER Productions Canal+ CinéCinéma Eagle Pictures India Take One Productions
Distributed by	The Weinstein Company
Release dates	15 September 2010 (2010-09-15) (France) 3 December 2010 (2010-12-03) (United Kingdom) 25 March 2011 (2011-03-25) (United States)
Running time	112 minutes
Language	English
Box office	$509,354

Miral is a 2010 biographical political film directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay was written by Rula Jebreal, based on her novel. The film was released on 3 September at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and on 15 September 2010 in France. The film is set for release on 3 December 2010 in the United Kingdom, and on 25 March 2011 in the United States. Miral was initially rated R by the MPAA for "some violent content including a sexual assault." Later, however, it was reclassified to PG-13 for "thematic material, and some violent content including a sexual assault" after an appeal of the R rating by the Weinstein Company.

Plot

A chronicle of Hind Husseini's effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Deir Yassin Massacre, and the establishment of the state of Israel.

Jerusalem, 1948. On her way to work, Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass) comes across 55 orphaned children in the street. She takes them home to give them food and shelter. Within six months, 55 had grown to almost 2,000, and the Dar Al-Tifel Institute was born.

In 1978, at the age of 7, Miral (Freida Pinto) was sent to the Institute by her father following her mother's death. Brought up safely inside the Institute's walls, she is naïve to the troubles that surround her. Then, in 1988, at the age of 17, she is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she is awakened to the reality of the Palestinian refugees. When she falls for Hani, a terrorist, she finds herself torn between the First Intifada of her people and Mama Hind's belief that education is the road to peace.

Cast

• Hiam Abbass as Hind al-Husseini
• Freida Pinto as Miral
• Yasmine Al Massri as Nadia
• Ruba Blal as Fatima
• Alexander Siddig as Jamal
• Omar Metwally as Hani
• Willem Dafoe as Eddie
• Vanessa Redgrave as Bertha Spafford
• Stella Schnabel as Lisa
• Makram Khoury as Khatib
• Doraid Liddawi as Sameer
• Shredi Jabarin as Ali

Production

Schnabel revealed that the project had relevance for his own family history, figuring that he was a pretty good person to tell the other side of the story, given his background, as an American Jewish person whose mother was president, in 1948, of the Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah the Women's Zionist Organisation of America.

Reception

Critics

The film received widely negative reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes reporting that only 16 percent of critics gave the film a positive review, based on a sample of 24 with an average rating of 4.1 out of 10.

References

1. "Venezia 67". labiennale.org. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
2. "Miral | UK Cinema Release Date". Filmdates.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
3. "Miral (2011)". RopeOfSilicon.com. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
4. "MPAA Gives 'Miral' A PG-13 Rating After Appeal" from Deadline.com (March 10, 2011)
5. http://www.palestine-family.net/index.php?nav=3-83&cid=90&did=986&pageflip=5
6. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JerryLevy/miral-israel-and-ajc_b_837383_81176312.html
7. http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/schnabel-says-miral-was-delayed-because-the-world-isnt-ready-for-its-message.html
8. http://www.globalindigo.com/interview-rula-jebreal-on-the-struggle-to-make-miral-a-film
9. Deborah Sontag, Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story, New York Times, March 22, 2011
10. Jewish director Julian Schnabel brings Palestine to Venice The Guardian. 2 September 2010
11. "Miral (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 24 March 2011.

External links

• Official website
• Template:Allmovie title
• Miral at Box Office Mojo
• Miral at IMDb
• Miral at Metacritic
• Miral at Pathé
• Miral at Rotten Tomatoes

• 2010 films
• Use dmy dates from November 2010
• English-language films
• Films about orphans
• Films directed by Julian Schnabel
• Films set in the 1940s
• Films set in the 1970s
• Films set in the 1980s
• Films shot in Israel
• Films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• The Weinstein Company films
• Biographical films
• Political films